Quotes About Understanding

How wearying to think nobody in this courtroom has ever listened to them. I see each one of them as the little child my father was always so concerned about, screaming her terror eternally into her own ear.

And one of the most serious things for me has been the understanding that the Universe is not that interested in punishing us. Every move we make is simply part of its reflection.

Jack is tall and kind and don't hardly say anything. Love children. Respect his wife, Odessa, and all Odessa amazon sisters. Anything she want to take on, he right there. Never talking much, though. That's the main thing. And then I remember one time he touch me. And it felt like his fingers had eyes. Felt like he knew me all over, but he just touch my arm up near the shoulder.

Whatever had made her think she knew what love was or was not?

how do you know when you really love someone? Sometimes you don't know, I said.

He understands that creating a meal means creating your own reality...

Access is something that we all have capacity, in some way or another, to give one another. So whether it's...hey, you know, if I say, Oh, hey, Rochelle, can we talk later tonight instead of tomorrow morning? I had a bad day, or I'm just tired, you could say, Hey, yeah. No problem. That's a form of access, right?

It is neither possible nor desirable to be always attuned and responsive to the moods and wishes of children.

Children ask questions piecemeal because they take their time to make sense of the information they receive. They know what they can manage and stop asking when they had enough. It is a good

There was a certain thing I did not get from my mother. There is a lack, a gap, a void. How's that? But in it's place, she has given me something else. Something, I would argue, that is far more valuable. I think I can get up now. She has given me the way out.

Language gets very confusing as it approaches this place where outside and inside touch.

No solo éramos invertidos, éramos inversiones el uno del otro

All these differences between children and adults

The dominant view was that children were essentially defective adults. They were defined by the things they didn't know and couldn't do.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.' Soren Kierkegaard

Kat embraced her, concealing her dismay as best she could. For these few months, fraught as they were, Elizabeth had been entirely hers again.

about Scotland's history, I saw parts of it in a completely new light. In Jim Hunter's memorable phrase, I compiled an archive of the feet.

Anyone who wants to understand something of the elemental nature of our history should try to walk through it, should listen for the natural sounds our ancestors heard, smell the hedgerow honeysuckle and the pungent, grassy, milky stink of cowshit, look up and know something of shifts in the weather and the transit of the seasons and feel the earth that once was grained into their hands.

we did not vilify all white men when mcveigh bombed oklahoma. america did not give out his family's addresses or where he went to church. or blame the bible or pat robertson.

A woman knows her children's friends, hopes, dreams, romances, secret fears, what they are thinking, how they are feeling and, usually, what mischief they are plotting. Men are vaguely aware of some short people also living in the house.

El lenguaje del cuerpo es más fácil de fingir frente a hombres que frente a mujeres porque, en general, los hombres no saben interpretar muy bien el lenguaje del cuerpo.

He could explain away the mechanical, but the inner workings of the soul eluded him

Because they don't understand smoking or smokers and have no idea how to make it easy to quit, their attitude is: 'Try this method. If it doesn't work try another.

porque crean una distracción. Siempre nos concentramos en las razones por las que no deberíamos de fumar, pero nunca analizamos las razones por las que fumamos. La verdadera pregunta es: '¿Por qué necesitamos hacerlo?